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Five poems &x28;quintet&x29;, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.607, fol. 29b
This is an illustrated copy of four of the five poems that comprise the Khamsah of NiẓÄmÄ« GanjavÄ« (d.605 AH / 1209 CE). It does not include Laylá va MajnÅ«n. The text was copied by a certain YÄdkÄr the Calligrapher (al-KÄtib) in 935 AH / 1529 CE, most probably in Safavid Iran. An illuminated double-page composition opens the manuscript and each poem is initiated with a decorative headpiece. The miniatures appear to have been repainted at some point in the manuscript’s history. Their date and provenance are open to question. The textblock is bound in late Zand lacquer covers with scenes depicting BahrÄm GÅ«r hunting and Khusraw watching ShÄ«rÄ«n bathing. At a court gathering an old woman speaks with a confidant of King JamshÄ«d. See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website: art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=17718
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